Downes

"Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia's remote and achingly beautiful Coral Coast. With no witnesses, no leads, and no DNA evidence, the case has gone cold. But Katy refuses to give up. Using Phoebe's social media accounts as a map, Katy starts to retrace her steps, searching for the clues that the police have missed....

"Seventeen-year-old Konrad (Rad) comes home to find his twin brother on a small platform that juts out over the ravine behind their house, and their father's broken body lying at the bottom of the slope 30 feet below. Rad doesn't know whether his brother pushed the father, or whether he jumped or fell. He wants to get to the bottom of things before calling the police. The mystery of the circumstances of the father's death is gradually eclipsed by...

"Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman's desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO'LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in...

America's first "road signs" were trees bent as saplings by the Indians, marking trails. They were part of an extensive land and water navigation system that was in place long before the arrival of the first European settlers.

A faded letter found in an attic forces reporter Hannah Foster to delve deeper into an investigation...a pursuit that finds her hot on the trail of a killer. The search leads her to a peaceful Amish town where all may not be as it appears. She finds herself attracted to a handsome farmer named Peter but clashes with his traditional values. Still, after one serendipitous event after the other, Hannah finds her meticulously built emotional walls slowly...

The Story of Woman, reflects the journey of all women at different times in their lives. A significant spiritual, emotional, and physical journey, written as a metaphor for our own journey, is being undertaken by Woman, as she learns important lessons about herself along the way up her personal mountain. Ultimately, she reaches the pinnacle of her mountain and celebrates how far she has come on this journey. The end of one journey is really just the...

From 1998 until the chaotic aftermath of the invasion, news reporter Richard Downes witnessed firsthand the changes that have overwhelmed the Iraqi people. In Search of Iraq goes far deeper into the environment than the daily news. Small events of ordinary life and whispered conversations in back alleys are as telling as the grand political statements. With a keen focus on the customs, religion, culture, and historical diversity of all the communities...

Book one in the Fyre & Stone series.Two men from the same city, but very different worlds.Sebastian Fyre is a wealthy young Lord with an unshakable belief that he can communicate with the dead. John Stone is a tough policeman who grew up in the Victorian slum tenements of the city he now patrols.A series of brutal murders across the city throw these two men into a reluctant and volatile partnership.Fyre and Stone attempt to hunt down a conspiracy...

Cast Fate to the Wind is an autobiography that follows a child from a dysfunctional background to adulthood, achieving many dreams and experiences of karma along the way. The path is random and, to no small extent, predetermined if you are prepared to listen to your sensitivities and those who have the gift of spiritual foresight. The psychic messages documented within are explanations, which may assist anyone with their quest for the meaning of...

Both Rosemary and Jacob have sworn off romance after their spouses have passed away. But one morning they both find themselves waiting for the bakery to open and they both begin to sense something fishy going on when the baker doesn't show up for work. They call the sheriff and meet him at the baker's home where they find something terrible. Rosemary and Jacob begin to snooping around on their own and the more they discover, the more the find themselves...